Random tracks keep getting "stretched?"

[TheOGTKO]

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I'm a newb and have no other way to describe what keeps happening. Waveform has worked great for me for months and recently it started to do this randomly, where 1, 2, or 3 tracks will appear to be "stretched" (longer than others), even though the recording was performed at once (recording a drum kit). Sometimes it's the toms, other times it's the overheads. If I shut down Waveform and reopen it, that sometimes stops the issue, but it eventually starts happening again. Any help? Please see link to screenshot.

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1bZa9Mp ... drive_link (https://drive.google.com/file/d/1bZa9MpmpFmWcDJ1zpzBSD96KQhuw75sh/view?usp=drive_link)

[Peter Widdicombe]

Click on the TOP part of a clip, and the clip properties should show up in the lower central panel. Is it possible the SPEED has been set to something other than 1 (or what all the other clips are set to ?). It even looks like the clips have somehow been either stretched or speed change - even beginning of the clip looks like the start is delayed.

PS - clip is NOT the same thing as a track, if you are learning Waveform. In your example here, each track has one clip, but the CLIP is the contents/properties of a recorded element of a track, and has it's own properties; and you can have multiple clips within a track, either copied, split, or even recorded separately...

[TheOGTKO]

Thanks, Peter. I'll check their properties, but I don't recall ever touching anything, other than setting up the tracks, naming them, and recording. And the tracks that are out of sync change from one recording to the next - one time it might be the overheads, while the next time it might be the kick and snare.

[Peter Widdicombe]

PS - when looking at tracks, any chance you grab the little triangles of the clip upper right and accidentally move/drag those ? (although it is odd that 2 tracks both got adjusted the same way, in the example)

[pough]

I'm a newb and have no other way to describe what keeps happening. Waveform has worked great for me for months and recently it started to do this randomly, where 1, 2, or 3 tracks will appear to be "stretched" (longer than others), even though the recording was performed at once (recording a drum kit). Sometimes it's the toms, other times it's the overheads. If I shut down Waveform and reopen it, that sometimes stops the issue, but it eventually starts happening again. Any help? Please see link to screenshot.

Can you be more specific about what you mean by "appear to be stretched"? Does that mean they only look stretched, but actually aren't? Is the pitch normal? Is there extra space at the start to make them longer? Are they slowed down?

And also please let us know what "stops the issue" means. Do the "appear to be stretched" clips un-stretch or do you mean something else?

Does it happen to the same inputs? You only mention the kit pieces, but that's only meaningful if you happen to always use inputs 5 and 6 for overheads, which is not necessarily the case.

Are all the inputs from the same device? Because it's in some cases possible to aggregate different devices, they might have some different settings.

Audio inputs have a Time Adjust setting. It can be easy to fat-finger those settings without even noticing. Please check them.

Please always include your OS and Waveform version when asking for help.